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The Case for a New Arab Peace Initiative - Foreign Affairs

Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, American officials have
insisted that the eventual creation of a Palestinian state that would
exist side by side with Israel is the only way to end the conflict in
the Middle East. “The only real solution to the situation is a
two-state solution,” declared President Joe Biden during his March
2024 State of the Union address. In May, National Security Adviser
Jake Sullivan said that “a two-state solution is the only way to
ensure a strong, secure, Jewish, democratic state of Israel, as well
as a future of dignity, security, and prosperity for the Palestinian
people.” And throughout her presidential campaign this year,
including after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in July, Vice President Kamala Harris has promoted a
two-state solution, describing it as the “only path” forward.

But to many people—especially Palestinians—these calls feel
divorced from reality. After suffering years of death and destruction
and decades of repression, most Palestinians do not believe that a
two-state solution is viable or forthcoming. In fact, polls have
suggested that a majority of Palestinians now support armed resistance
as the way to end the conflict. It is easy to see why, even without a
year of war, they might be disillusioned. The United States has spent
decades peddling a two-state solution while supplying Israel with
arms, allowing it to expand settlements in the occupied territories,
and permitting it to seize more Palestinian land and natural
resources. Washington has backed Israel internationally almost no
matter what the country does. It has, in other words, consistently
ignored the rights of the Palestinian people.

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CNN apologises for pager comment by conservative panellist to Mehdi
Hasan
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In a later post on X, however, Girdusky appeared to double down on a
more antagonistic approach. “You can stay on CNN if you falsely call
every Republican a Nazi and have taken money from Qatar-funded
media,” he said. “Apparently you can’t go on CNN if you make a
joke. I’m glad America gets to see what CNN stands for.”

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Kamala Harris holds lead over Donald Trump in new national poll
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Preliminary data from the Cooperative Election Study (CES) was
released on Monday and shows Harris leading Trump by 4 percentage
points among 48,732 likely voters, with 51 percent of those surveyed
backing the vice president and 47 percent backing the former
president.















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Keir Starmer plays fast and loose with public trust in UK budget
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The United Kingdom budget, delivered Wednesday, marks the biggest
moment of the new Labour prime minister's time in office so far and
the first such statement overseen by his party in 15 years.

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How Daring to Be Different Made Nerds Gummy Clusters a Top Selling
Candy - Inc [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=85762&nl=daily]
In a world where data is king and everything can be measured by clicks
and consumer responses, most makers of goods, clothes, cosmetics, and
food items undertake extensive research before doing new product
launches. Others, by contrast, ignore discouraging feedback during
early trials and just go with their gut feeling. It was that kind of
determination and confidence that led Chicago-based candy producer
Ferrara to take a hopeful flyer with Nerds Gummy Clustersthe what the
heck? U.S. confectionary hit that has already generated over $500
million in sales so far this year.














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5 Rules for Companies Navigating Geopolitical Volatility - Harvard
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Geopolitics is an uncertain business. The world order to which most
business leaders were once accustomed is now facing its greatest
challenge since the Cold War, if not World War II. Wars in Europe and
the Middle East and rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific have made the
world more turbulent and less predictable. There are few offramps to
what increasingly looks like a geopolitical hard landing that could
threaten global security and growth.

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Helsinki Declaration says researchers must disclose trial results on a
timely basis - STAT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=85762&nl=daily]
In a boost for clinical trial transparency, the Declaration of
Helsinki was updated so that medical researchers are now responsible
not only for making study results public, but also for doing so in a
timely manner.














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CNN Bans Conservative Panelist After He Tells Journalist Mehdi Hasan I
Hope Your Beeper Doesnt Go Off - Forbes [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=85762&nl=daily]
Conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky was removed from a CNN
discussion panel on Monday and banned from the network after he
appeared to suggest that fellow panelist and journalist Mehdi Hasan
was a member of Hezbollah during a heated discussion about the
controversies surrounding former president Donald Trumps Madison
Square Garden rally.

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Foreign markets fear possible reverberations of a Trump election win -
WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=85762&nl=daily]
Foreign officials and economists worry that a Donald Trump victory
could usher in a worldwide cascade of new trade barriers and an
extended stretch of higher interest ratesa potentially punishing
cocktail for weaker economies abroad.














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Italys Turin is a chocolate lovers dream - WSJ
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Tucked away in the far northwest of Italy is a city where chocolate
reigns.The residents of Turin have been creatingand consumingchocolate
since the 16thcentury,culminating in a vibrant chocolate scene that
now encompasses gourmet chocolatiers, pastry shops, cafes, gelato
makers and experimental chefs.

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At Boeing and Starbucks, different problems but similar CEO messages -
WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=85762&nl=daily]
The dual turnaround attempts playing out at the same time and in the
same placeSeattleare drawing the attention of management gurus and
CEOs, along with employees, investors, coffee drinkers and fliers, all
looking to decipher how the executives will change their
organizations.














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Israel urged by Yellen to help Palestinian economy function - WSJ
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the West Banks economy
could collapse if Israel doesnt preserve its banking relationship with
Palestinian financial institutions in the territory it occupies,
highlighting another potential source of instability as Israel also
fights foes in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.

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What if Microsoft let OpenAI go free? - The Economist
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Call it a modern-day version of a spectacular Renaissance patronage.
Since 2019 Microsoft has provided more than $13bn in cash and
computing capacity to OpenAI, a once-penniless startup that is now at
the forefront of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and, as of
its most recent fundraising round, worth $157bn. In exchange,
Microsoft has gained the exclusive right to run OpenAIs models on
Azure, its cloud-computing business.














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Here's How Many Americans Have Voted Early in the Presidential
ElectionSo Far
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With the 2024 presidential election fast approaching, early voting is
up and running for many. All but three U.S. states (47 in total) and
the District of Columbia offer early voting options. In swing states
especially, early voting has been a priority for both parties.

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Wildfires Are Moving Faster and Causing More Damage - Scientific
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Vicki Matthews, a 23-year resident of Louisville, surveys the damage
to the Wildflower condominium complex in Louisville, Colo., destroyed
by the Marshall Fire in 2021. Researchers say the wildfire was so
destructive because it spread quickly.














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The Trump Show Comes to Madison Square Garden - The New Yorker
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On the corner of Eighth Avenue and Thirty-third Street, Patriot
Drummer Mike and Magashred Steve were finishing a two-man rendition of
Were Not Gonna Take It, by Twisted Sister. Mike played a snare drum
and wore a tricorne hat; Steve played an electric guitar and wore a
red Make America Great Again hat, signed by the man himself. They took
a break and consulted a laminated set list: Stayin Alive, Rawhide,
Folsom Prison Blues rewritten as J6 Prison Blues, and a few Civil War
anthems. They couldnt remember which were Union songs and which were
Confederate songs, but they were pretty sure that their list included
some of each. Gotta cover the bases, I guess, Mike said.

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How would the US handle a nuclear Iran? - WSJ
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Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran, has had a bad week. Elon Musks X
suspended his new Hebrew-language account, and the Israel Defense
Forces unleashed a devastating series of air raids against his
countrys military infrastructure. Given the disparity between Irans
capabilities and Israels, the beleaguered ayatollah doesnt have many
good options for a counterstrike.













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The battle brewing over how much red meat you eat - WSJ
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Scientists advising the U.S. government on its next round of dietary
guidelines have drafted recommendations that would tell Americans to
limit how much red meat they eat. Its part of an effort to nudge us to
eat more plant foods, including beans, peas and lentils.

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Trump Uses Thumbs-Up Video From Sept. 11 Event for a Snapchat Ad
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Shane Goldmacher is a national political correspondent, covering the
2024 campaign and the major developments, trends and forces shaping
American politics. He can be reached at [email protected].
More about Shane Goldmacher

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Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia Are Angered by Bigoted Remarks at Trump
Rally
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Another Puerto Rican Trump supporter said the remarks against his home
island did not upset him because they were the words of a comedian and
not the former president. The supporter, Max Izaguirre, 78, of North
Philadelphia, added that he agreed with Mr. Trump’s view that
immigration had made the United States “like a garbage can for the
world.”

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How Russia, China and Iran Are Interfering in the Presidential
Election
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But the broad goal of these efforts has not changed: to sow discord
and chaos in hopes of discrediting American democracy in the eyes of
the world. The campaigns, though, have evolved, adapting to a changing
media landscape and the proliferation of new tools that make it easy
to fool credulous audiences.

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Opinion | Trump Betrayed America.Republicans Must Put Country Above
Party.
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The powers of the presidency are vast and its responsibilities
commensurately immense. It is for those reasons that a president has
no higher obligations than to America’s democracy, Constitution and
rule of law, the foundational cornerstones of our republic. Through
his words and deeds, Donald Trump has over and again demonstrated his
palpable contempt for those cornerstones of America’s grand
experiment in democratic self-government. He has proved himself to be
an anti-democratic, anti-Constitution candidate for the presidency of
the United States.

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Opinion | The BRICS Summit Was a Glimpse of the World to Come
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Surrounded by the leaders of some three dozen nations, Putin looked
like the cat who ate the canary — a man who reportedly has the
richest man in the world, Elon Musk, on something close to speed dial
and has reportedly had private phone calls with the past and possibly
future president of the United States, Donald Trump. The secretary
general of the United Nations attended as well, raising eyebrows as he
made his first visit to Russia in more than two years. In a news
conference at the end of the summit, Putin indulged in some digs at
his Western tormentors.

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From's Smart Swim 2 goggles will be available to buy at select Apple
Stores soon
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Starting November 5, Apple will begin carrying the From Smart Swim 2
goggles at 20 stories across the US and Canada.

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Top 10 US fears include corrupt government, terrorism, world war
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Such misperceptions can translate into real-world effects, such as by
convincing officials to prioritize neutralizing serial killers rather
than domestic abusers, who are much more common. “We are so focused
on stranger danger that it leads us to spend resources in the wrong
way,” Bader said in a statement.

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Kamala Harris to urge voters to 'turn the page' on era of Trump
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In an abbreviated 100-day campaign that Harris inherited from Biden
after he stepped aside in July, the Democratic nominee has unified her
party, raised more than a billion dollars, blanketed the airwaves and
blitzed the battleground states. And yet the race remains a dead heat
nationally and in the seven swing states that will determine who
serves as the 47th president of the United States.

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Infraspeak raises $19.5M to bring collaboration to facilities
management | TechCrunch
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Europe remains Infraspeak’s core focus for now, but the startup is
also expanding into South America and Africa. Although the company
doesn’t formally operate in the U.S. market, it does claim “a
small number” of customers stateside, which could serve as the
genesis for expansion later — it may well need to raise more money
for that.

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Emidat is building a tool to clean up construction by automating
environmental reporting | TechCrunch
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Natasha is a senior reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012,
based in Europe. She joined TC after a stint reviewing smartphones for
CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business
technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic), where she
focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms & networking, and IT skills
issues. She has also freelanced for organisations including The
Guardian and the BBC. Natasha holds a First Class degree in English
from Cambridge University, and an MA in journalism from Goldsmiths
College, University of London.

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Stephen Bannon Is Released From Prison
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Mr. Bannon’s reach gives him few peers in right-wing media — and
fewer still who understand how to tap into and inflame the fears and
suspicions of Trump supporters. Before Mr. Bannon’s imprisonment,
the Podcharts ranking service routinely listed his daily podcast
“War Room” among the country’s top 10 political podcasts.

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What Harris's Courtroom Transcripts Reveal About Her Closing Arguments
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Sharmin Bock, an attorney who worked closely with Ms. Harris in
Alameda County, recalled sitting on the courthouse steps with Ms.
Harris in the 1990s to discuss trial strategies. Ms. Bock says she
sometimes sees glimmers of those days as she watches Ms. Harris on the
campaign trail. “I see Kamala talking to her jury,” she said.

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Florida Used to Be a Swing State. Now It Leans Republican.
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The reasons are in some cases structural and longstanding:
demographics, partisan gerrymandering and legislative term limits. But
others are of Democrats’ own making: an unwillingness to invest
enough in the nuts and bolts of winning elections; fund-raising
divisions; and flawed assumptions about the growing Hispanic vote,
according to an examination of voter registration numbers, campaign
spending and more than two dozen interviews with political operatives
from both parties.

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Inside the Colorful and Cultish World of Nerds Gummy Clusters
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For six months, a team of candy scientists and developers at the
company’s headquarters in Chicago met almost every day on their
quest to create a gummy core that could hold just enough mini Nerds to
pack a perfect crunch. A previous Nerds product had been made in hopes
of solving that issue — Nerds Rope, a long, gummy rope with Nerds
stuck to it — but some had found it messy or difficult to eat.

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How Trump's Business Could Create New Conflicts If He Is Re-Elected
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Even if Mr. Trump eventually agrees to forgo future foreign business
— the centerpiece of that earlier plan — the recent deals will
most likely be grandfathered in, because his company moved swiftly to
announce them well ahead of any potential new constraints, one of the
people said.

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Puerto Rico's G.O.P. Chairman Demands Apology From Trump for Comic's
Remarks
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By and large, the former president is not known for his contrition. In
2018, when Mr. Trump was facing criticism over an aide’s joke that
Senator John McCain was irrelevant because he would soon die, a
Republican strategist, Kevin Madden, said, “The president has always
throughout his career had a stance of ‘never apologize, never back
down.’”

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Trump Attacks Michelle Obama, Days After She Criticized Him
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Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent reporting on the
2024 presidential campaign, down ballot races across the country and
the investigations into former President Donald J. Trump. More about
Maggie Haberman

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Trump's Use of Profanity Was Already Growing Before the MSG Rally
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He often relates that Franklin Graham, the evangelical leader and son
of the Rev. Billy Graham, has chided the former president about his
language. “I wrote him back,” Mr. Trump said at a rally this month
where he discussed the golfer Arnold Palmer’s penis size and invited
the crowd to shout out a four-letter word to describe Ms. Harris. “I
said, I’m going to try to do that, but actually, the stories won’t
be as good. Because you can’t put the same emphasis on it. So
tonight, I broke my rule.”

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Harris Dives Into a Frenetic Final Week With a Swing Through Michigan
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Mr. Walz addressed gun violence, a topic that polls show resonates
deeply with young voters who have grown up participating in
active-shooter drills in their schools. He first said that freedom
includes being “free to send your kids to school without them being
shot dead in the halls,” then took a rhetorical jab at Mr. Trump.

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Secret Files in Election Case Show How Judges Limited Trump's
Privilege
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The effort, which ended in the spring of the following year, was
largely intended to obtain firsthand accounts from key figures who had
used claims of executive privilege and other legal protections to
avoid testifying to investigators on the House committee that examined
the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and the events leading up to
it.

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TikTok founder becomes China's richest man
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Zhang Yiming's fortune has leapt to almost $50bn, according to a newly
published rich list.

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HSBC profits jump as banking giant set for major shakeup
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HSBC's new chief executive, Georges Elhedery, said that implementation
of the plans will "begin immediately" and promised to share more
details alongside the bank's full-year results in February.

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How much could the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rise
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The Real Living Wage, external is an unofficial hourly rate of pay
which is overseen by the Living Wage Foundation charity. It is based
on the amount of money the charity believes people need to earn.

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JP Morgan sues customers over viral cheque fraud
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The “infinite money glitch”, as it became known on TikTok, allowed
the bank's customers to write a large cheque to themselves, deposit it
and then withdraw the funds before the cheque bounced.

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Budget 2024: Teashop 'forced to close' by VAT rules
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To recoup the tax paid, the cafe has to earn more money, which
increases its costs. Profit margins are small, so to earn enough extra
profit to cover the VAT, the business has to take another £50,000.

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Elon Musk Bought a Texas Compound for His 11 Kids and Their Mothers
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A proponent of in vitro fertilization, Mr. Musk believes strongly in
increasing the world’s population. He has even offered his own sperm
to friends and acquaintances, including the former independent
vice-presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan, according to two people
familiar with his offer. Ms. Shanahan turned him down.

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McDonald's Focus on Value Bolsters U.S. Sales
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Still, McDonald’s earnings are a closely watched barometer for
consumer spending, especially among lower-income consumers, who have
been tightening their belts over the past year. McDonald’s
introduced the $5 meal deal promotion this summer and then extended it
through the end of the year in a majority of its markets.

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No, poll workers aren't handing out Sharpies to invalidate ballots.
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Stuart A. Thompson writes about how false and misleading information
spreads online and how it affects people around the world. He focuses
on misinformation, disinformation and other misleading content. More
about Stuart A. Thompson

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No, noncitizens are not voting in droves.
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Stuart A. Thompson writes about how false and misleading information
spreads online and how it affects people around the world. He focuses
on misinformation, disinformation and other misleading content. More
about Stuart A. Thompson

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What Ants and Orcas Can Teach Us About Death
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Of course, projecting our own human experiences onto other species can
be a tricky business, and scientists often warn about the mistakes we
can make when we engage in this sort of anthropomorphism. But we can
also be misled by our tendency to assume that many cognitive and
emotional traits are unique to humans, Dr. Monsó said. And in her new
book, “Playing Possum,” she argues that a variety of animal
species have at least a rudimentary concept of death.

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Democrats launch ads in nail salons, malls in final swing-state sprint
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Those ad buys come as Harris made overtures to Puerto Ricans on
Sunday, pouncing on racist remarks made by Trump rally speaker Tony
Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico an "island of garbage."

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Pfizer tops earnings estimates, hikes full-year guidance as Covid
products help sales
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That growth is mainly due to strong demand, particularly in the U.S.
during a recent wave of the virus. It was also helped by a one-time
contractual delivery of 1 million treatment courses of Paxlovid to the
federal government's national stockpile during the third quarter,
which accounted for $442 million in revenue. 

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Rocket builder Firefly's new CEO is working 'maniacally' to scale
launches, spacecraft and moon missions
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"I've run companies before. At the end of the day, we have to execute.
We've got to get a cadence. ⦠As long as you execute, you can keep
going bigger and bigger and bolder and bolder," Kim said.

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